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Climate change and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are inseparable, but the persistent separation of climate policy making and WASH service delivery risks restricting progress for both. Louise Whiting, Senior Policy Analyst for Water Security and Climate Change, discusses what needs to change to achieve the delivery of climate-resilient WASH service to all.

Worldwide, the number of cases of cholera is increasing at an alarming rate and outbreaks are re-emerging in epidemic proportions. Megan Wilson-Jones, WaterAid’s Policy Analyst for Health and Hygiene, explains the forces driving this disease.

Achievement of universal access to water and sanitation often requires strong community participation. However some tasks, such as monitoring water levels, can be too difficult to fulfil. In Timor-Leste, WaterAid is working with local people to find a sustainable solution. WaterAid's Moises Pereira explains.

In this new policy brief, Louise Whiting, Senior Policy Analyst for Water Security and Climate Change, outlines the urgent policy changes needed to ensure that climate finance is used catalytically, effectively and for the benefit of highly vulnerable populations living without access to water and sanitation.

COP21 has finished, and the world has at last set an ambitious goal for limiting climate change. Miriam Denis Le Seve, WaterAid’s Policy Officer for Climate Change, draws out the strengths and weaknesses of the global agreement reached.

A WaterAid-commissioned study shows the world’s poorest nations are not receiving enough money to help them safeguard essential water, sanitation and hygiene services against flooding, drought and extreme weather that is the result of climate change.

WaterAid is seeking proposals for a new Climate Finance Initiative. The aim is to demonstrate the changes required to ensure that a proportion of future climate finance flows is spent on increasing the water security and climate resilience of people living in WASH poverty.

A new Climate Finance Initiative aim to build collaborative partnerships in several countries to demonstrate the changes needed to ensure a proportion of future climate finance flows is spent on increasing the water security and climate resilience of those living in WASH poverty.

As the global climate changes, the challenge of sharing a decreasing and changing supply of fresh water among the world’s population will grow. Louise Whiting, WaterAid’s Senior Policy Analyst – Water Security & Climate Change, looks at the shifting situation and what we can do now to protect the poorest people in the future.